Divine (corporation)

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1 History
2 Key Staff
3 Demise
4 External links

[edit] History

divine inc, (The company's name was properly spelled with a lower case 'd', because it was felt that a capital 'D' might make it appear that the company was comparing itself to God) was a Chicago-based company that started out as an Internet Incubator named divine Interventures. The company was founded by Andrew 'Flip' Filipowski.

When the Internet stock bubble burst, divine switched business models. Its management decided to become an enterprise software company offering an extensive array of products and services. Now known only as divine, it took the most viable of its incubator businesses and purchased other companies with stock values deflated by the collapse in the stock market. Many of these businesses were unprofitable, leading to cash-flow problems.

[edit] Key Staff

As of early 2003, the board of directors consisted of:

Tommy Bennett, Computer Associates
John A. Cooper, ThinkTank Holdings, LLC
James E. Cowie, Frontenac Company
Michael Cullinane, divine, inc.
Andrew 'Flip' Filipowski, divine, inc.
Michael H. Forster, Internet Capital Group
Arthur W. Hahn, Katten Muchin Zavis
Paul Humenansky, divine, inc.
Kevin Nater, Dell Computer Corporation

The executive leadership, also as of early 2003, was:

Andrew 'Flip' Filipowski, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Ron Bienvenu (aka Rodney Bienvenu), Chief Planning Officer
Buster Brown, Executive Vice President, Sales
Ted Collins, Senior Vice President, General Manager of Collaboration
Michael Cullinane, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Brian Diver, Chief Operating Officer, divine Professional Services
Bill Dumont, Senior Vice President and General Manager, CIM-Telephony
Joe Forgione, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Content Management
Tom Hammergren, Senior Vice President and General Manager, CIM-Internet Products
Paul Humenansky, President and Chief Operating Officer
Scott Kane, Chief Operating Officer, divine Software Services
Ken Kinsella, Chief Operating Officer, divine International
Jim Krzywicki, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Content
Chauncey Kupferschmid, Senior Vice President, Customer Services
George Landgrebe, President, divine Software Services
Ken Mueller, Senior Vice President of Finance
Jeff Schultz, Chief Marketing Officer
Jude Sullivan, General Counsel
Ed Szofer, President, divine Professional Services
Paul Tatro, President, divine International
Sunny C. Vanderbeck, President, divine Managed Services
Alex Walker, Senior Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions
Richard Wallace, Chief Information Officer
Katharine A. Wolanyk, Chief Alliance Officer

[edit] Demise

One of the companies that was acquired by divine was RoweCom of Massachusetts, a library periodical subscription business. In late 2002, RoweCom was having trouble fulfilling its commitments to its paid subscribers. divine attempted to sell the RoweCom subsidiary to competitors. When these deals fell through, RoweCom was forced into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. RoweCom immediately filed suit against divine, alleging that divine had improperly diverted RoweCom's operating cash to other parts of its struggling business. divine subsequently filed for Chapter 11 on February 25, 2003. In April 2003, divine's assets were sold at auction.

A list of companies purchased by divine: (incomplete)